Umbel appointed Jim McNamaraas senior vice president of global sales. In this role, McNamara will apply his experience to the oversight of Umbel's strategic revenue initiatives and business development blueprint.

Mia's Kitchen hired Frances Dulanyas a regional sales manager, focusing on the Western area of the United States. Dulany brings more than 30 years of experience to this role and joins the company from Riba Foods, where she also served as sales manager.

FleishmanHillard San Francisco added Tim O'Keeffeas general manager and Vanessa Yanezas head of technology practice. O'Keeffe has over 15 years of experience in corporate communications. Most recently, he served as general manager and senior managing director of Horn Group. Before joining FleishmanHillard in 2011, Yanez served as Axicom PR's global client service director for Dell's Consumer, Small and Medium Business sector.

Infoblox Inc. hired Stephen Yuas executive vice president and general counsel. Yu brings more than 20 years of experience to the role. For the past seven years, Yu served as executive vice president, general counsel and secretary of Rovi Corp.

VMware promoted Robin Matlockto chief marketing officer. Matlock has more than 25 years of marketing experience in the enterprise software and services sector. Before joining VMware in 2009, Matlock was executive vice president and general manager at Imperva.

The Presidio Group LLC promoted Karl Schade, former managing director and head of its private equity group, to chief executive officer. Before Presidio, Schade was a private equity investor with Blum Capital Partners, Silver Lake Partners and the Blackstone Group.

DocuSign added Vivian Macdonaldas chief accounting officer. Macdonald most recently served as vice president of finance and worldwide controller at Electronic Arts.

Appthority brought on Pam Brodtas vice president of sales. Brodt previously held sales and leadership positions at Cloudscaling, Claris and Apple.

Latest from the SFGATE homepage:

Click below for the top news from around the Bay Area and beyond. Sign up for our newsletters to be the first to learn about breaking news and more. Go to 'Sign In' and 'Manage Profile' at the top of the page.